Hello! After a few months of work since the last update, the game is finally ready to leave Early Access. Black Deck Crew team is still working on many small fixes to make the latest build released even better in the future, while gathering feeds around from players all around the world. The full release comes with extra tuning and a ton of extra polishing, including new performance optimizations, revisited UI and overall quality of the product which can proudly be defined "complete" now! Enjoy!

[ 2021-12-15 10:57:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello! It's been a long time and we're finally ready to present our next big patch. Let's take a look at balance changes: Workers:

• Employees will start to think about leaving at 70% happiness (was 75%)
• However, they should be more willing to leave at the lowest levels of happiness
• Employees will generate with slightly lower base stats
• All starting employees for start-up specialization will be slightly better
• Employees will have slightly lower salary expectancy

Items:

• Flat bonus equipment is now considered tier 2 (was tier 3), costs $1000 and gives +1 to corresponding skill (was $5000 for +5)
• Percentage bonus equipment is now considered tier 3 with it's stats remaining unchanged

Projects:

• Offered projects will be slightly bigger in size, reward and deadline
• TOP market projects will be significantly bigger at the start of the game, making it harder for the player to produce a project that will reach TOP 10
• Slightly increased own project income to offset the change above
• Methodologies now cost $5000 to unlock (was $10000)

Loans:

• Credit score will increase faster, making larger loans accessible earlier

Besides balance changes we also spent some time polishing the game, fixing small bugs and inconsistencies, updating UI and overall visual look of the game. We've also been working on some minor performance optimizations.

[ 2021-02-10 13:59:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there, We have a surprise party waiting for you! Our new game Cryptofall is almost ready for beta-testing. All Go to IT players will be invited to join for free! - https://store.steampowered.com/app/996180?beta=1 Cryptofall started as a minor part of Go to IT. We liked it so much! Soon we noticed that our players also like it. So we added some new functionality, and a then a bit more, and more. Suddenly we realized that crypto trading in Go to IT is turning into a totally separate and independent game. Meet Cryptofall - complex, challenging and fun game about crypto trading. In Cryptofall you can: - check trends, analyze data and make decisions on when to buy or sell altcoins, - buy and sell shares to participate in the corporate strategy, - explore different ways to get passive income, including miners and dividends, - diversify your portfolio and outsmart the volatile market. If you are a Go to IT player, you have a chance to get Cryptofall for free. All you have to do is to leave your feedback. Tell us what you really think, criticism is also welcomed. We value your opinion and we are always happy to improve the game. Submit a review, and our support team will contact you. You'll get access to Cryftofall beta-testing, and Cryftofall will be yours for free, all future updates included. We are going to remove crypto trading from Go to IT, so it would be unfair not to give Cryftofall to our current players as a present. After all, it was you who gave us thoughtful feedback and priceless support. Add Cryptofall to your Wishlist, and stay tuned for updates!

[ 2019-09-13 11:47:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

In this patch we made a few changes to game mechanics, bringing it closer to our final vision of the game.

Balance

We slightly reduced overall difficulty of the game. In the past we got a lot of feedback on how easy the game was, so we made it harder, but probably too much. We are now rolling back some of those changes, making the game more accessible to the beginners, while still keeping it challenging in the late game.

Technologies

We changed how project technologies work. Some of them didn't work together very well, so now you have 4 free switchable technologies, which impact the workflow of the project, and only one of which can be active at a time. 4 additional technologies can be unlocked with money, and they work as they did before. Technologies became easier to understand for beginners, but they still require a good level of game understanding to use them to their full potential. This also made us change Start-up and Businessman starting bonuses. We no longer give technologies as a starting option, changing it to a more appropriate choices:

• Start-upers can carefully setup their starting team. You can pick between: two beginner employees, one advanced employee, or expend $5000 to get one experienced Mentor who will give their team bonus experience. All of those starting employees are less likely to leave your company. Start-upers also get more CVs in the early game.
• Businessmans now have a choice to start with a Business Partner. They are inexperienced, but they invested in your company, so you get to start with $5000 more money. They are, however, greedy, and will demand higher salary than usual. In addition, they will never leave your company unless fired due to Partner trait. Businessmans also get more job offers in the early game.

New mail type.

We added a new mail type - "Awards". You get this letter when you make a TOP 1 project in any category. Ratio of Design/Code/Management will impact reviews you get. For example, a game with amazing design but terrible code will get an award for it's design, but will probably be unplayable and get negative reviews.

Exchange

We completely removed exchange and currency trading from the game. This feature inspired us to make a separate game Cryptofall where we fully explored simulation of asset trading, since those things seemed out of place in Go To IT.

Other small changes:

* You can see when an employee wants to leave - their happiness bar will flash red. * Hackathons reward and difficulty now only grows in case of successfull completion of previous hackathon. * Added tips for game speed hotkeys. * You can see estimated TOP positions when creating your own projects.

[ 2019-09-13 11:24:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Its been a while! Updates from us:

• German localization is available! Komm schon!
• Historical events now affect current market situation.

Rebalanced:

• Technologies
• Learning

Fixed:

• A bug with win screen
• The error on loading the game, that blocks every other action
• Menu button that isnt working

Let us know what do you think about the last updates and don't forget to share :)

[ 2019-04-22 05:36:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

For quite some time we've been focusing on game balance and competitiveness. Weve integrated score system, updated main storylines and introduced the ways to lose and win the game. Balancing the game could never be finished, but could be good enough. And now we believe that it is good enough to focus on something else. So we decided to reintroduce achievements.

Whats new?

• You can unlock up to 27 Steam/in-game achievements.
• Project complexity will now have lower impact in the early stages of the game and higher impact in the later stages.
• Low-skilled employees will now correctly earn experience.
• Late game salaries have been lowered.
• Freelance projects will be better rewarded in the late stages.
• Employee dreams have been fixed and now can be fulfilled again.
• Tons of other fixes and tweaks were implemented to make the game more enjoyable.

Stay tuned for more updates! As always, your feedback is very welcome.

[ 2019-03-22 18:04:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

A few more balance fixes from us to add to the previous patch:

• Own projects are more profitable and freelance project got a bit less profitable
• Portfolio projects requirements were lowered
• Early game stages are smoother and more fun
• Employees equipment now affects bug generation as well as working on tasks

Hope for your feedback on the game balance changes in the community hub!

[ 2019-03-12 20:35:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

TL;DR: The game got a storyline, exploring it you win the game
You can win the game! Along with the company growth, the worlds whale corporations will offer you to participate in their projects. Each corporations projects have their own specialties and directly lead your company to win.

Whats new?

• Ability to sell office rooms. If you want to move to a new office, think about selling rooms that wont be in use.
• Employees equipment gets sold on the dismissal
• Scores top integrated in Menu. You can find all wins and loses of your walkthroughs
• Kothik Koteckiy came back with his projects for you!
• Employees management modal got a fresh look. There will be a clear indication of employee that waits for debt, plans to go on vacations or leave.
• Notification when your companys balance go below 0
• Weekends and workdays displayed on the timeline

Keep it up! More updates are coming! P.S. We plan to make a discount soon ;)

[ 2019-03-08 11:19:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Weekend patch of Balance released!

• Self-made projects rewards increased
• Scaling of offers in late game is balanced
• The process of generating bugs during development was redone
• Public Relations actions dont spam with CVs and offers

Whats new?

• Exchange operations require you to pay 1% fee
• The company becomes bankrupt and you lose the game in case the revenue of your company is below zero
• Music volume slider added in Settings

Bugs fixed:

• Different combinations of platform and kind of self made projects are not dramatically more profitable than others now
• The exchange doesnt allow to control the currency market through investing a lot of money

Thanks for activity in Community Hub! We note all the problems and schedule them to be fixed shortly!

[ 2019-02-23 21:45:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Remember those traits that each employee has? Projects got them too! Some of the projects are purely marketed and slightly affect your companys popularity. Some projects are just purely financed, but your employees are happier doing it. Lots of variability in terms of fitting projects and the team.

• Save logic is removed. 1 slot = 1 walkthrough. You cant save the game before the tough decision. Sorry, thats life.
• Notifications about crucial situations in the company will pop up. For now they mostly inform about the lack of money.
• Names of the employees are generated basing on the ethnicity of the one.
• New office logic. In order to move to a bigger office space, you need to pay its costs immediately. The smallest office doesnt get downgraded if the company has no money to afford it. Instead, its upkeep cost is subtracted from the current amount of money, which results in negative money amount (bad sign for the company).

Huge and small bugs fixed:

• Weve received a lot of complaints that game saves were broken and are impossible to recover. Now all of your saves should work just fine. Let us know if its not the case!
• Employees dont leave the company when they are on vacations or plan to go on vacation, allowing you to change their mind before they leave.
• You can choose an option with no accessory on character appearance creation

Stay tuned, speak out

[ 2019-02-11 16:10:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there! A few more updates from us before weekends: Weve redone the description of the employees. They are telling their perspective on certain things about their job including the complexity of tasks, balance between working and learning and so on. Its also displayed how do their thoughts affect their happiness level, and as a result, work efficiency. In order to keep your team motivated, its required to react to happiness decrease.
The next week we will introduce a few more mechanics in the game. Thank you so much for the feedback left in the community hub, discord and everywhere else. It is really important to grow the game you are interested in playing!

[ 2019-02-01 16:59:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Its been a while. Weve got some fresh updates which are huge balance improvements!

Whats new?

• During the start of your own project, you are able to determine an estimated quantity of tasks for design, coding, and management. When your project reaches the specified values, it gets released on the market.
• Weve received a couple of complaints about broken saves. Weve implemented a feature that fixes the save once its loaded.

As said, this release is a whole lot of improvements, as such:

• Weve totally redone the way project iterations and complexity growth works.
• Employees learning logic is changed to be more realistic
• Notifications are reduced to show only important things
• The freelance project offers dynamically vary their rewards basing on your job history
• Office and equipment were rebalanced
• PR logic has been rebalanced. Now you wont be a successful company without using it
• The exchange got a better layout

Wow, what a week! Cant wait to release new features in Public Relations, Office and maybe own shares issuance :) Keep it up!

[ 2019-01-30 13:44:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Go to IT soundtracks are now integrated in the game!

All music was produced by The Flashbulb. He is a great composer who inspires us a lot in our work. We are very pleased about using his masterpieces in Go to IT. Check out The Flashbulb on Bandcamp Soundtracks change depending on the success of your company to add more dynamics to the gameplay. We plan to continue improving the sound engine in future releases. As for the other improvements:

• Happiness of employees changes more obvious that it was before. Its easier to manage the happiness level of your teammates now.
• Employees thoughts represent the game situation more accurately, false thoughts were fixed

Thanks to the community for the immersed feedback. We hope that its clear how your contribution makes Go to IT better. See you!

[ 2019-01-18 15:47:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Weve received plenty of complaints about performance. This patch will change that.

Improvements:

• Performance. Now the game should be stable even with big teams. Gaming on 3x speed decreases the performance, but this will be fixed in the next patch
• Own projects reward. Self-made projects now have decreased reward rates and the revenue decreases through time

New Features:

• Company name. During the start of the game, you are able to enter the name of your company
• Market is now changing rapidly. Other companies will try to beat your top projects to be better. If you want to save your revenue, its time to check out market top and maybe adjust your technology preference ;)

Bugs fixed:

• Not working achievements Getting things done and Reinventing the wheel are now fixed
• Timeline doesnt show events that wont occur (previously dismissed employees were shown there)

Whats next?

• Increasing performance
• Employee's thoughts balancing

We also plan to integrate official sound track in the next patch. Keep it up!

[ 2019-01-15 10:37:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

Holidays? Nah, check out what weve done with this years last release! We focused on own projects and performance. Own projects are now long-term. After their release, they continue to float on the market and generate revenue. We also optimized the exchanges performance and overall performance of the game. Hope for your feedback on that one specifically! And to not over the party, we brought a couple of bug fixes:

• Game saves now autosaving frequently. There should be no situation when you load the save and get thrown back in time
• Salary raise works properly adding 10% of existing salary to employees check
• Doubled platforms in own project platform selection are gone
• Employees assignment on own project creation fixed

We wish you a lot of new accomplishments in 2019. Plenty of updates on Go to IT coming up in the new year. So see you there. Yours, Black Deck Crew

[ 2018-12-30 09:36:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Ho ho ho! Black Deck Crew launches Christmas sale! Get Go to IT with 25% discount at Steam store! Explore management - and maybe there would be no broken deadlines next year.

[ 2018-12-23 13:39:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Its been a while! We want to introduce a few major updates included in the patch:

Employees are personalized with traits

• Traits are sets of character qualities, that each employee has. They help to bring diversity and let players enjoy more strategic choices when forming their teams.
• There are currently 26 traits in-game, which together make a huge number of unique combinations that you can encounter when hiring.

Project technologies have been updated

• Technologies now have much more clear and understandable descriptions, which will help players decide on whether or not to use them in their projects.
• Motivation technology has been removed from the game, replaced by Recreational activities.
• Recreation activities is a new technology, that allows a project team to spend some of their working time on recreation, accumulating temporary boost to Happiness.
• Overtimes technology now triggers a visible Morale bar which represents willingness to work overtime and their exhaustion from doing it.

Other features implemented in this patch:

• Hackathons introduced a separate project type!
• 1, 2, 3 - this buttons change the game speed now.
• Equipment got rebalanced

Major bugs fixed:

• Own projects wont fail on loading save of the game
• Performance issues are partly resolved

Due to some tech issues, Linux users will receive the update delayed in a day or two. Thank you for leaving feedback, stay tuned! Black Deck Crew

[ 2018-12-20 17:26:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

In a new version, we expanded office capabilities and integrated Steam Overlay. Specifically, you can have a certain room in your office that affects work efficiency as well as manage your teams stamina level.
Besides that, we want to introduce an indication of some methodologies. Now you are able to track whether your methodology choice is relevant to the current work in progress. From now on Non-stop refactoring and Test Driven Development have their own indication. We plan to continue this expansion. Included bugfixes:

• Employees have a normal level of happiness entering the company
• The exchange got more optimized.
• Small not profitable projects wont come to your inbox
• Back button on creation steps added

Thanks every reviewer who leaves feedback on the game, it's really leading us to a better product. Black Deck Crew

[ 2018-12-03 22:28:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

In this patch, we focused on the stability of the game and visualization of the data needed for running a company. New feature - Accounting You can now see when and how your companys money is spent tapping on your wallet in the header. Bug fixes including:

• The menu is opened on launch (instead of the last save played)
• Broken achievement fixed
• Done percentage display fixed
• Removing projects with NaN deadline or reward
• You can now disable animations to avoid freezes on the late stages of company growth

Were still aware of this list of this list of issues and will fix them in the next patches:

• The happiness of the employees found with Hiring Agency is lowered by the fact that they instantly require a pay raise
• Issues on old machines on Linux OS

Please use a hotkey Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + O to refresh the game in case youve got an error that crashes it. Thank you for the reports in discussions, they help a lot! Stay tuned, Black Deck Crew

[ 2018-11-23 18:36:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

A fresh new patch just has been uploaded! Its mostly bug fixing: 1. Offers and resumes are getting deleted from your inbox in case of rejection 2. Character and project names fields fixed (you can now type in those fields) 3. Own projects bugfix iteration works properly now. You can finish your projects using Release button in Project manage window. 4. Localization settings stopped getting refreshed with every new save. 5. Paying debt to employee fixed 6. The reward of own projects displays correct numbers. 7. Workers properly go on vacations and leave the company. Besides bugs, there are some other updates: 1. Captions on some windows that require explanation what theyre for. 2. Keyboard shortcuts are represented in settings 3. Small suggestions in starting your own project Thanks to everyone who wrote a review and in the discussion, well keep fixing all the reported bugs and work on new features! More updates to come! Black Deck Crew

[ 2018-11-20 14:19:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

We just released a fresh patch with the first reports and suggestions from the community included! What's in it:

• Reward of your own projects are now showing correct numbers.
• Employees now go to vacations and can be fired (bug fixed thanks to testers!)
• If you got NaN money by accepting a buggy project - you should now have your money back to normal. We're still in progress of fixing those NaN projects, but in a day or two I think it'll be away forever.
• Spacebar pauses/unpauses the game.
• Office logic improved.

The next patch is passing its tests now to be released soon! Stay tuned!

[ 2018-11-18 12:11:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear Management Mavens, After all those months of development, we are proud to release Go to IT. We had 6 months of hard work, 146 742 lines of code, 1674 commits, 27 unique achievements, a lot of bugs and sea of furious coffee and lots of sleepless nights. We hope that the game will be fun, useful and enjoyable for all our players, including real-life managers and software enthusiasts. Please note, its an Early Access release. For now, our main objective is to collect your feedback and reports. So that we can fix and polish everything in the next versions. We invite you to freely share your impressions, difficulties, and questions with us in Steam discussions or in our Discord server Speak out, share, stay tuned, Black Deck Crew

[ 2018-11-16 09:57:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

As the release date comes closer, we sleep less, work more and polish all edges to deliver a quality product. Here is what was changed with todays patch:

• The exchange has a fresh look and a trading history implemented
• Analytics of the market top became easier to understand and more useful as a result
• Emails can be filtered by type. A player can also add them to favorites to have a quick access to them.
• Emails that player rejects will be deleted from the inbox
• Russian localization is partially integrated
• Own project are now profitable :)
• Small wiki on the game can now be found in the header. Well keep filling it.
• Employees educate faster but require more attention to their happiness.

Besides that, we worked on various bug fixes and graphics.

[ 2018-11-10 11:04:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear Management Mavens, After all those months of development, we are proud to announce the final release date for Go To IT November 15. We hope that the game will be fun, useful and enjoyable for all our players, including real-life managers and software enthusiasts. Please note, its an Early Access release. For now, our main objective is to collect your feedback and reports. So that we can fix and polish everything in the next versions. We invite you to freely share your impressions, difficulties, and questions with our support team. Contact them directly from the game main screen or via the Steam discussions. Speak out, share, stay tuned, Black Deck Crew

[ 2018-11-07 16:31:15 CET ] [ Original post ]